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Sleeping Dog:
One more note on the Calcomp Plotter.
The AutoCAD driver for it is stored and used within AutoCAD itself. The only thing that might be necessary is to assure that the plotter's COM port on the LINUX box (in this case, COM2) is set up with 7,E,1 and Hardware. (That's 7 Bits, Even parity, 1 Stop Bit and Hardware Control). That is the only caveat that I have found so far.
Sleeping Dog
creedon:
The Debian CD's are done; I'm checking them out before I send them, but we should be talking install in about a week.
I've been looking at a window manager called "Matchbox"; it's full featured , but it will run on a hand-held- VERY sparing of resources. I've also been investgating Beowulf Clusters; some interesting stuff there.
It's really amazing the applications that exist, yet get little or no publicity; sure, some of 'em are crap, but Richard Stallman's right about one thing- if a programmer takes the time to write an application that he KNOWS won't make him rich, but he writes it anyway, he'll do the best job he can, because he's writing it out of dedication, not greed.
Het everyone: let's see some Googlesearch action; start looking for those applications; you know, the ones that are open source and perform better tha closed-source MS- based programs. We can make a significant difference here: let's PROVE that Linux can be a viable business alternative to expensive, unreliable, intrusive Microsoft systems, and it will run on "obsolete" equipment and STILL perform. We can do this!!
creedon:
The Debian CD's are done; I'm checking them out before I send them, but we should be talking install in about a week.
I've been looking at a window manager called "Matchbox"; it's full featured , but it will run on a hand-held- VERY sparing of resources. I've also been investgating Beowulf Clusters; some interesting stuff there.
It's really amazing the applications that exist, yet get little or no publicity; sure, some of 'em are crap, but Richard Stallman's right about one thing- if a programmer takes the time to write an application that he KNOWS won't make him rich, but he writes it anyway, he'll do the best job he can, because he's writing it out of dedication, not greed.
Het everyone: let's see some Googlesearch action; start looking for those applications; you know, the ones that are open source and perform better tha closed-source MS- based programs. We can make a significant difference here: let's PROVE that Linux can be a viable business alternative to expensive, unreliable, intrusive Microsoft systems, and it will run on "obsolete" equipment and STILL perform. We can do this!!
creedon:
>OOPS!!< Sorry 'bout the double post; I got excited. I'd like to stay and chat, but I gotta go change my britches. 'bye
creedon:
quote:Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b:
Anyway the best office appliations are:
All in one: StarOffice, Open Office, kOffice
Typing: AbiWord
Spreadsheet: gNumeric
Finance: GNUcash
My favorite desktop is GNOME, I Like windowmaker and fvwm too, and love blackbox but Gnome is more configurable than KDE/qt and the same goes for swfish which is the best Window Maniger.[/b]
--- End quote ---
I like all your ideas; personally, I'm real impressed with OpenOffice. The biggest hurdle that we have is the amount of RAM available; it used to be that 64 Mb was a shithouse of memory (I have a copy of Slack 2.03 that says it can run on 2 Mb!!) Unfortueatly, the MS bloat philosophy has spread to Linux to some extent. 64 Mb will run a fairly fast home unit, but we're looking at a system that's going to be running some RAM-intensive business app's; short of a complete CLI system, I think we've got to forego ANY eye-candy, that's why I'm reccomending we take a long look at Matchbox 0.3x11. Granted, it's beta software, but it's specifically built to be used on machines that have a limited amount of resources (RAM). From what I've seen of it, I'm impressed. I may D/L it today and give it shot on my "testing" partition, I will post my results.
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